Information Handling System Adaptive Action for User Selected Content

Abstract

An information handling system having a touchscreen display desktop workspace adapts to supplement actions selected by an end user through touches for more rapid and simple touch control. Actions monitored at the information handling system are used to build task profiles that correlate subsequent actions and information processed by the actions. The task profiles are then referenced to complete an action detected at the information handling system without additional end user inputs. In one embodiment, the action is power up of the information handling system and the task profile is initiation of applications used at power up by the end user. In an alternative embodiment where an action is associated with multiple task profiles, icons are presented for selection by an end user of the task profile to perform.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An information handling system comprising:
 a processor operable to execute applications to process information;   a memory interfaced with the processor and operable to store the instructions and the information;   a horizontally-disposed touchscreen display interfaced with the processor and operable to present the information as visual images and to accept touch inputs; and   a smart action user interface presented at the horizontally-disposed touchscreen display and selectable by an end user touch, the smart action user interface initiating one or more applications in response to the end user touch, the one or more applications executing to process information identified on the horizontally-disposed touchscreen display.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1  wherein:
 the information identified on the horizontally-disposed touchscreen display comprises information highlighted by an end user touch; and 
 the one or more applications comprises an application to analyze the highlighted information content. 
 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 2  wherein highlighted information comprises an image and the application converts the image to text. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 2  wherein the information comprises a graphical image having a visual depiction and the application analyzes the graphical image to determine a second application to copy the graphical image into. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 2  wherein the smart action user interface comprises plural icons, each icon initiating a different application, each of the different applications upon initiation by an associated icon inserting information highlighted on the horizontally-disposed touchscreen display into a document managed by the application. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 5  wherein the smart action user interface selectively presents less than all of the plural icons so that each of the different applications has a relevance to the highlight information. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 2  further comprising:
 a vertical display interfaced with the processor and operable to present the information as visual images; 
 wherein the smart action user interface ignores information highlighted at the vertical display. 
 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 2  further comprising:
 a physical mouse input device interfaced with the processor; 
 wherein the smart action user interface ignores highlighting related to inputs made at the physical mouse input device. 
 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 2  wherein the one or more applications comprises plural applications configured to execute as a macro. 
     
     
         10 . A method for managing user selected information presented at apt information handling system display, the method comprising:
 detecting user selection of information by an end user input performed at the information handling system;   analyzing the information at the information handling system to determine a type of content; and   based upon the type of content, presenting one or more icons with the information handling system, each icon initiating execution of one or more applications associated with the type of content.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10  further comprising:
 detecting selection by an end user of the one or more icons; and 
 inserting the user-selected information into the application associated with the selected icon. 
 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 11  wherein analyzing the information further comprises converting graphical ink images to text. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 10  wherein at least one icon is associated with execution of two or more applications, each of the two or more applications having a graphical icon image, the at least one icon having the graphical icon image of the two or more applications combined into a single graphical icon image. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 10  further comprising:
 monitoring actions at the information handling system; 
 detecting repetition of a first and second action associated with user selection of a predetermined type of content; and 
 automatically generating an icon to present at the information handling system to initiate upon selection of the icon the first and second actions for user selected information. 
 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 10  further comprising:
 determining whether user selected information is presented at a horizontal display or a vertical display; 
 presenting the one or more icons only if the user selected information is presented at the horizontal display. 
 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 10  further comprising:
 determining whether the user selected information was selected by a touch at a touchscreen or by an input through a peripheral device; and 
 presenting the one or more icons only if the user selected information was selected by a touch at a touchscreen. 
 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 10  wherein at least one of the one or more icons comprise one or more macros that execute plural applications upon selection of the at least one icon, the macro having a name derived from the plural applications. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 10  wherein at least one of the icons automatically initiates one or more applications in the event the user selected information has a predetermined content type. 
     
     
         19 . Non-transitory memory storing instructions that when executed on an information handling system cause:
 detection of highlighting of information at a touchscreen display interfaced with the information handling system;   presentation of a first set of one or more icons if the highlighted information comprises text, each of the first set of icons initiating execution of an associated application that applies the text;   presentation of a second set of one or more icons if the highlighted information comprises a graphical ink image, each of the second set of icons initiating execution of an associated application that applies text generated from OCR analysis of the graphical ink image; and   presentation of a third set of one or more icons if the highlighted information comprises a graphical image, each of the third set of icons initiating execution of an associated application that applies the graphical image.   
     
     
         20 . The instructions of  claim 19  wherein the highlighting of information comprises touching of a horizontally-disposed touchscreen.